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As all of you know I lost my job on Tuesday. Now we are in a bind. I have found a part time job but all that will pay is regular bills. We have to come up with $3600.00 by August 2nd to keep our house. We are a household of 2 adults a disabked parent and an 8 year old child. My boyfriend has been looking for a job for over a year now and nothing is hiring. I am looking for $1.00 donations.

Little BG: She moved in with them. Child, Parent, and BF are the family unit.

I assume $3600 is the mortgage payment? Seems rather high, but I guess that is what they chose to buy. Now, missing one payment will not put you into the street, so it seems this is not the first missed payment. So, we have a mom with a disabled parent, a child, and a live-in boyfriend who has not had a job in over a year. I need to stop now or I might say something like, "kick out the boyfriend!!" "Downsize!"

As all of you know I lost my job on Tuesday. Now we are in a bind. I have found a part time job but all that will pay is regular bills. We have to come up with $3600.00 by August 2nd to keep our house. We are a household of 2 adults a disabked parent and an 8 year old child. My boyfriend has been looking for a job for over a year now and nothing is hiring. I am looking for $1.00 donations.

You might want to bold your first line about having found that on fb today, so it is clear that it isn't your message to the forum. I was a bit stunned.

I cannot believe someone would post that on facebook or anywhere other than to relatives and personal friends, if that. I feel for them, but gosh....

« Last Edit: June 22, 2012, 02:19:00 PM by Bijou »

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I've never knitted anything I could recognize when it was finished. Actually, I've never finished anything, much to my family's relief.

As all of you know I lost my job on Tuesday. Now we are in a bind. I have found a part time job but all that will pay is regular bills. We have to come up with $3600.00 by August 2nd to keep our house. We are a household of 2 adults a disabked parent and an 8 year old child. My boyfriend has been looking for a job for over a year now and nothing is hiring. I am looking for $1.00 donations.

You might want to bold your first line about having found that on fb today. I thought that was you talking and asking the forum members to send money. I have to say my mouth was hanging open.

I second the bolding of the first line, because I accidentally read it the same way. I apologize wonderfullyanonymous.

I assume $3600 is the mortgage payment? Seems rather high, but I guess that is what they chose to buy. Now, missing one payment will not put you into the street, so it seems this is not the first missed payment. So, we have a mom with a disabled parent, a child, and a live-in boyfriend who has not had a job in over a year. I need to stop now or I might say something like, "kick out the boyfriend!!" "Downsize!"

Get rid of the internet!...although i guess they could be posting from a library or hot spot, to be fair. Still... the cojones

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Not sure why, but this actually doesn't really bother me. Yes, it's oversharing, and embarrassing for the poster to be airing their personal situation on a public forum such as Facebook, but I don't see a huge difference between this and the kid who funded his college education by asking for penny donations.

I think it doesn't bother me because the donation amount asked for is so small, the need does seem to be legitimate (although I question the bf not finding a job after a year, when the poster found one in a few days?), and there aren't any major guilt trips attempted. Plus, we have no info to know whether they are irresponsible in other areas, ie, they spend a ton of money on gadgets or vacations, but cry help for bills.

I couldn't help myself. Yours is a much more mananimous viewpoint, to be sure.

LOL. I know, I'm a softie, and probably a bit of a sucker at times. I just think this one's pretty mild on the gimme pig scale. I probably actually would give them a dollar or two, if it was someone I knew.